TY - JOUR AB - Aims herein to highlight the retail marketing issue as an area of study and, also, to emphasise the informational aspects of retailer marketing. Introduces the argument by examining what is meant by retailer marketing in this context also the relevant historical background. States, in marketing general literature, early attention was devoted to the process of marketing through the channel of distribution with the corresponding emphasis on managing distribution and so forth. Posits that the concept of marketing has been applied to a vast range of non‐manufacturing activities. Concludes that there are a number of contrasting strategies which retailers can adopt to exploit their structural and technological advantages in the channel marketing information system. VL - 17 IS - 6 SN - 0309-0566 DO - 10.1108/EUM0000000004819 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004819 AU - Piercy Nigel PY - 1983 Y1 - 1983/01/01 TI - Retailer Marketing – Informational Strategies T2 - European Journal of Marketing PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 5 EP - 15 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -